18.281, Confs: Writing Systems/China

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LINGUIST List: Vol-18-281. Fri Jan 26 2007. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 18.281, Confs: Writing Systems/China

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Date: 19-Jan-2007
From: Yiyi Chen < biblecn at gmail.com >
Subject: Origins of Early Writing Systems 

	
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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:11:59
From: Yiyi Chen < biblecn at gmail.com >
Subject:  Origins of Early Writing Systems 
 



Origins of Early Writing Systems 

Date: 05-Oct-2007 - 07-Oct-2007 
Location: Beijing, China 
Contact: Yiyi Chen 
Contact Email: origins at caeno.org 
Meeting URL: http://www.caeno.org/origins/home.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Writing Systems 

Meeting Description: 

Dear Colleague,

The Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Language and Civilizations at Peking University and CAENO Foundation have the pleasure of inviting everybody interested in early writing systems to a conference in Beijing, October 5-7, 2007. 

The conference will address several areas of interest:
1)	Lexical texts
2)	Proto-Cuneiform, proto-Elamite and related schemes
3)	Comparison of cuneiform writing systems to early Chinese scripts

For further information, please go to the conference website
www.caeno.org/origins/home.html

There you can keep up to date on events as they develop.

We look forward to seeing you in Beijing.

Organizers:  Yushu Gong and Yiyi Chen, Peking University, and Henry Zemel, CAENO Foundation





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